Mechanisms of exercise as a preventative measure to muscle wasting

ZA Graham, KM Lavin, SM O'Bryan… - … of Physiology-Cell …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
Skeletal muscle is the most abundant tissue in healthy individuals and it has important roles
in health beyond voluntary movement. The overall mass and energy requirements of …

Spinal cord lesions

R Rupp - Handbook of clinical neurology, 2020 - Elsevier
A spinal cord injury (SCI) may result in impairments of motor, sensory, and autonomous
functions below the injury level. Worldwide, the prevalence of SCI is 1: 1000 and the …

Lifelong physical exercise delays age-associated skeletal muscle decline

S Zampieri, L Pietrangelo, S Loefler… - … Series A: Biomedical …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Aging is usually accompanied by a significant reduction in muscle mass and force. To
determine the relative contribution of inactivity and aging per se to this decay, we compared …

Long-term high-level exercise promotes muscle reinnervation with age

S Mosole, U Carraro, H Kern, S Loefler… - … of Neuropathology & …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The histologic features of aging muscle suggest that denervation contributes to atrophy, that
immobility accelerates the process, and that routine exercise may protect against loss of …

Electrical stimulation counteracts muscle decline in seniors

H Kern, L Barberi, S Löfler, S Sbardella… - Frontiers in aging …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The loss in muscle mass coupled with a decrease in specific force and shift in fiber
composition are hallmarks of aging. Training and regular exercise attenuate the signs of …

Home-based functional electrical stimulation rescues permanently denervated muscles in paraplegic patients with complete lower motor neuron lesion

H Kern, U Carraro, N Adami, D Biral… - … and neural repair, 2010 - journals.sagepub.com
Background. Spinal cord injury causes muscle wasting and loss of function, which are
especially severe after complete and permanent damage to lower motor neurons. In a …

Physical exercise in aging human skeletal muscle increases mitochondrial calcium uniporter expression levels and affects mitochondria dynamics

S Zampieri, C Mammucari, V Romanello… - Physiological …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Age‐related sarcopenia is characterized by a progressive loss of muscle mass with decline
in specific force, having dramatic consequences on mobility and quality of life in seniors. The …

Atrophy, ultra-structural disorders, severe atrophy and degeneration of denervated human muscle in SCI and Aging. Implications for their recovery by Functional …

H Kern, C Hofer, S Loefler, S Zampieri… - Neurological …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Objectives: Long-term lower motor neuron denervation of skeletal muscle is known to result
in degeneration of muscle with replacement by adipose and fibrotic tissues. However, long …

[HTML][HTML] Persistent muscle fiber regeneration in long term denervation. past, present, future

U Carraro, S Boncompagni, V Gobbo… - European journal of …, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Despite the ravages of long term denervation there is structural and ultrastructural evidence
for survival of muscle fibers in mammals, with some fibers surviving at least ten months in …

Mitochondrial health and muscle plasticity after spinal cord injury

AS Gorgey, O Witt, L O'Brien, C Cardozo… - European Journal of …, 2019 - Springer
Mitochondria are responsible for aerobic respiration and large-scale ATP production in
almost all cells of the body. Their function is decreased in many neurodegenerative and …